304 SEIFRIZ: PLANTS ON MrT. GEDEH, JAVA 
green odor when crushed. The leaves of Gaultheria exhibit a 
characteristic of alpine plants, standing perpendicularly to and 
closely surrounding the stem. Some few ferns are still found 
at this altitude, and lycopodiums are quite abundant, for ex- 
ample, L. gedeanum 
This fifth subzone is essentially the last distinctive vegetative 
region on Mt. Ge ere is, however, a small area im- 
mediately Seay 6 oe present crater of Gedeh and extending 
a short distance down into the crater, which can be regarded as 
an upper subdivision of the fifth subzone, for here the plants 
IG. 7. The Javanese edelweiss, Anaphalis javanica. The foliage in 
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the right background is that of a young Albizzia montana. The tiny leaves 
in the left center background are Myrica javanica. The shrubs in front of 
the edelweiss, center and left, are dwarf Vaccinium 1 varingiaefolium. 
are fewer in number and all greatly dwarfed. The vegetation 
which is scattered over this waste surface of lava consists of 
isolated and small stunted specimens of edelweiss, Vaccinium, 
Rhododendron, Myrica, and another Gauliheria species, G. 
fragrantssima, 
the multifarious ferns ubiquitously present from the first 
to be fifth subzone, only one, a dwarf variety of the remarkably 
adaptable species, Polypodium Feei, remains to occupy the rocky 
lava floor of the old crater of Gedeh. Representatives of this 
genus are found in every zone from an altitude of 4,600 to one 
of 9,400 feet. 
